Toy torpedo



Sept. 11, 1923.

A. CIMOROSI TOY TORPEDO Filed Dec. 30. 1920 lnvenToT. A\berfo C'nmorosi BYMWQW Patented Sept. 11, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFHCE.

TOY TOBPEDO.

Application filed December 30, 1920.

A further object of the invention is to provide a toy torpedo which will explode upon impact, but which can be safely handled and not explode except whenprojected with considerable force against a resisting object.

A further object of the invention is to provide a torpedo in which the explosive materials will'be protected from the deteriorating influence of moisture and other conditions of the atmosphere.

A further object of the invention is to provide a torpedo with an enclosingsubstantb ally non-resilient shell which will 'so distribute the pressure, produced by impact, as to cause a more instantaneous explosion of the fulminating composition.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved method or process of making torpedoes which consists in agglomerating a mass of granular material upon a cartridge containing, and preferably full of, a fulminating composition.

In the performance of the process the grains of material forming the shell desirably are agglutinated together and t the surface of the cartridge.

The shell of agglomerated granular mate rial preferably is produced by rolling the 4 cartridge about in a mass of granular matcrial, the cartridge either being'provided' with a viscous coating of glue or other adhesive, or dropped into and rolled about in a mixture of granular material and adhesive of such consistency that the agglutinated material will progressively accumulate upon the material in a manner similar to the accumulation of snow upon a rolled snow ball.

ther objects and features of the inven- Serial No. 434,064.

tion will more fully appear from the followlng description and the annexed drawings and will be particularly pointed out in the accompanying claims.

A preferred embodiment of my invention and a diagrammatic illustration of a preferred method of producing the same is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Fig. 1 is an elevation of a preferred spherical form of torpedo;

Fig. 2 illustrates in separated sections a preferred form of cartridge adapted to contain the charge of fulminating composition Fig. 3 is a diametrical sectional view of the torpedo illustrated in Fig. 1; and,

Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic illustration of a preferred process of agglomerat-ing the granular substance upon the cartridge to form the shell.

The present invention is an improvement upon the invention disclosed in my prior Patent N 0. 1,199,775, granted October 3,

1916, for improvements in toy torpedoes.

,The invention disclosed therein comprised a toy torpedo having a shell formed of two hollow substantially hemispherical sections containing a central tubular member extending across the dividing plane between the hemispherical sections. This shell was filled with a fulminating composition and the shell sections secured together by a band encircling the sections transversely of the plane of their meetin edges.

In the construction of the torpedoes made in accordance with the disclosure of this patent it was found diflicult to completely fill the shell so that the material would rattle more or less and might be subject to a: premature explosion.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a cartridge which may be completely filled by a fulminating composition and which will be so enclosed in a protecting shell as to prevent access of moisture and other deleterious ingredients of the atmosphere from obtaining access to the fulminatlng composition.

A further feature of the invention consists in providing a shell of such a character as to afford a cushion which will prevent premature explosion if the torpedo is accidentally jostled or dropped. The shell preferably is composed of materials which proexplosion than the cartridge in variousdirections, or by reciprocating the-support for the granular material, such as a pan 12, in such a manner as to cause the cartridge to roll around in it in different directions.

The agglutinated granular material first adhering to the cartridge will provide a thin heretofore produced by such layer, somewhat increasing the diameter of a the article-and causes the same to begin to assume'a spherical form 13 as illustrated in articles. o

In the preferred embodiment of the in vention disclosedherein a cartridge is em-. Fig. 3, and further rolling of the cartridge ployed which desirably may be cylindrical will eventually accumulate a sufficient in form comprising a central tubular body amount of the agglutinated granular masection 1 and bottom -and top caps or covers terial to produce an article 15 of spheroidal 2 and 3. These covers may comprise end or substantially spherical form. portions 4 and 5 respectively which may be When a 'suflicient amount of the granular flat 'or convexedly curved outwardly. The material has agglomerated upon the carsections 2 and 3 desirably are provided with tridge it is; removed and dried and, if deflanges 6 and 7 respectively adapted to fit vsired, given awaterproofing coating'of any telescopically upon the central body section desired color. 1

1. Alternatively the body portion 1 may be By p-roducing'the torpedo in the manner provided with' an integral head and any above described a substantially spherical arsuitable form of cap secured thereupon, ticle is provided having centrally embodied which may be adapted to permit the carin it the cartridge containing the explosive tridge to be completely filled with a fulmimaterial. Inasmuch as the explosive or fulnating composition. minating compositiomsuch as that above de- Any desirable fulminating composition 'scribed,.must-; be confined in order to explode, may be employed in thevproduction of .a' the torpedo thus produced is a most ,satistorpedo embodying my invention, it being factory article since the enclosing shell of understood that the term fulminating comagglomerated material, while being substanposition is adapted to jinclude any comtially' non-resilient,'is suffi'ciently tenacious pound composition or mixture adapted upon to produce a pressure over a sufficient area impact of the torpedo with a relatively substance to cause anexplosionof suc I com? stantially instantaneous explosion thereof. pound composition or mixture.

Any suitable granular material may be A preferred fulminating composition may employed in the construction of the shell of comprise a mixture of chlorate of potash, the torpedo. .A- preferred composition com- I sulphur and. antimony, preferably small prises finely ,comminuted fibrous material termingled'therein. or other adhesive material of a permanent The cartridge when filled and "assembled nature which when dried will produce a sub is provided with a-shell comprising an ,stantially solid mass. I agglomerated mass 8 of granular material In the practical performance *of the procwhich, covers, and preferably adheres to, ess the cartridges may be dropped into a 'everypart of the exposed wall of the carpan'of sawdust and a sufficient amount of tridge. The shell may be constructed and glue applied to the cartridge and to the sawapplied by covering the cartridge with a dust to cause the cartridge when rolled about coating of viscous adhesive material 9, such in the sawdust,'by-osc1llatin the pan, to

as glue or other adhesive and applyin the form a spherical, or spheroi al shell upon granular material thereto. Preferably, owthe cartridge. I ever, the filled cartridge, either in the coated u It will be understood that the embodiment or uncoated state is dropped into a mixture of the invention disclosed herein is illusof granular material and adhesive of such trative and not restrictive and that the torconsistency that it will accumulate upon the pedo may be made in any desirable form and cartridge when the latter is rolled in it so that the agglomerated mass forming .the that the agglomerated granular material shell thereof ma be produced in any suitwill accumulate upon the cartridge in a able manner. Ii: will also be understood gravel stones orother solid objects being 'insuch as sawdust intermingled with a glue :1'05

spheroidal or substantially spherical form. that any other form of cartridge may beem- In ig. ,4 of the drawing a filled car ployed or. that 'thefulmiimte may itself be tridge 10 is illustrated as being rolled so composed that it may be enclosed. within through a mass of finely granular material ---a-n ag'lomerated shellwithout requiring an 1 and adhesive 11 of such consistency thatit enclosing sheath or carton and-that other will accumulate upon the surface of the modifications may, be made within the spirit cartridge 1n a spheroidal form. Such acand scope of the following claims. cumulatlon can be caused either by rolling Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letter Patent, is:

l. A torpedo comprising a shell formed of a mixture of an agglutinant and a granular material and having a central cavity containing a fulminating composition.

2. A torpedo comprising a cartridge filled with a fulminating composition and having a spheroidal shell formed of a mixture of an agglutinant and a granular material.

3. A torpedo comprising a substantially cylindrical cartridge completely filled with a fulminating composition having a spheroidal shell formed of a mixture of an agglutinant and a comminuted fibrous material.

4. A torpedo comprising'a cartridge having a central tubular member filled with a fulminating composition having a sphe roidal shell formed of a mixture of an aggluformed of granules of material agglutinated together and to said cartridge.

5. The process 'of making torpedoes which consists in filling a cartridge with a fulminating composition and agglomerating thereon a shell of agglutinated granular material upon said cartridge by means of a suitable adhesive.

6. The process of makin torpedoes which consists in filling a cartric ge with a fulminating composition and coating said cartridge with an agglomerated mixture of granular material and an adhesive by rolling the cartridge in said granular mixture to form a substantially spheroidal shell thereupon.

7. The process of making torpedoes which consists in fillin a cartridge witha fulminating composltion and causing the same to roll in a mixture of sawdust and adhesive to form a spheroidal shell upon said cartridge.

In testimony-whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

ALBERTO CIMOROSI.

CERTIFICATE OF CORREG'I-ION.

Patent No. 1,467,755.

September 11, 1923.

ALBERTO CIMOROSI.

It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: claim 4, strike out the words and syllable a mixture of an agglu-" an enclosing shell; rection therein that Office.

Page 3, lines 18 and 19, "having a spheroidal shell formed of and insert instead and provided with enclosing heads and and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this corthe same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Signed and sealed this th day of January, A. D. 1935.

(Seal) Leslie Frazer Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

